The Genius of ShakespeareOxford University Press, 2008 - 402 pages This fascinating book by one of Britain's most acclaimed Shakespeare scholars explores the extraordinary staying-power of the world's most famous dramatist. Bate opens by taking up questions of authorship and then goes on to trace Shakespeare's canonization and near-deification, examining not only the uniqueness of his status among English-speaking readers but also his effect on literary cultures across the globe. Ambitious, wide-ranging, and historically rich, this book shapes a provocative inquiry into the nature of genius as it ponders the legacy of a talent unequalled in English letters. A bold and meticulous work of scholarship, The Genius of Shakespeare is also lively and accessibly written and will appeal to any reader who has marveled at the Bard and the enduring power of his work. This tenth anniversary edition has a new twenty-page afterword that addresses the renewed interest in Shakespeare and recent film adaptations of his most celebrated works. |
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Page 136
... character , the title and the opening scenes give the dominant emphasis to the two male friends , Proteus and Valentine . For purposes of dramatic unity , the problem with the Felismena and Felix story is Celia . What is one to do with ...
... character , the title and the opening scenes give the dominant emphasis to the two male friends , Proteus and Valentine . For purposes of dramatic unity , the problem with the Felismena and Felix story is Celia . What is one to do with ...
Page 252
... characters they were writing about that they lost sight of the plays . In his Essay on the Dramatic Character of Sir John Falstaff , published in 1777 , Maurice Morgann set out with the apparently quixotic ambition of proving that ...
... characters they were writing about that they lost sight of the plays . In his Essay on the Dramatic Character of Sir John Falstaff , published in 1777 , Maurice Morgann set out with the apparently quixotic ambition of proving that ...
Page 253
... Character - criticism thus shades off into myth - making . Falstaff tran- scends the plays in which he appears and is seen instead as the archetype of a set of human characteristics . He ceases to be a character and becomes an icon ...
... Character - criticism thus shades off into myth - making . Falstaff tran- scends the plays in which he appears and is seen instead as the archetype of a set of human characteristics . He ceases to be a character and becomes an icon ...
Contents
Shakespeares Autobiographical Poems? | 34 |
Shakespeares Peculiarity | 133 |
THE SHAKESPEARE EFFECT | 155 |
Copyright | |
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